A succession of DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks forced the website belonging to beleaguered Wikileaks to move to host with Amazon. Recent developments however, saw it first being booted off Amazon's web servers while its U.S.-based domain host EveryDNS also pulled the plug on the highly controversial site yesterday.

In a statement posted on its front page, EveryDNS emphasized that it is a free community-based service and that it is not taking a position on the content posted on the Wikileaks.org site. Referring to the DDOS attacks against Wikileaks, EveryDNS wrote "These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites." As per the terms of the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy, the service said it sent a 24 hour termination notification to the email address associated with the Wikileaks.org account.

The Wikileaks.org domain is no longer active, though there is nothing that prevents the organization from registering their domain with another DNS provider. Referring to this, EveryDNS noted on its site that "Any downtime of the Wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to use another hosted DNS service provider."

According to a message posted on Wikileaks' Twitter feed, the DDOS attack had been punishing, exceeding some 10Gbps in network traffic. I have some thoughts on DDOS, which you can read in today's commentary.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at eWeek
- check out this article at Wall Street Journal
- check out this article at EveryDNS.net News page

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